Callum May
@callummay
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News producer: home/social affairs; UK migration; the law; politics. Otherwise: cricket; #bhafc ; trying to show not tell.
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The Coke advert but with Pfizer lorries instead of Coke ones.
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Not the same Boris Johnson who, less than two months ago, called Jeremy Corbyn a "mutton-headed mugwump"?
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Someone has put a gold Alan Partridge outside the headquarters of BBC Radio Norfolk
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Apropos not much: the man in the blue jacket, who looks to camera and puts his thumb up, is the guy who noticed Brighton’s owners were trying to sell the ground and run off with the profits in the 1990s when we were in the fourth division. 💙🤍
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[interior: a pub on Tyneside]
- I see one of the nominees for Best Actor behaved violently at the Oscars
- Javier Bardem?
- No, but the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has opened a formal review
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Some personal news: pleased to announce that I have managed to print a letter the correct way up on some headed notepaper after only 3 (three) attempts.
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“Can you give us a reason to be optimistic next year?” Prince Harry asks President Obama. And then with perfect timing, adds: “Please?”
#r4today
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It’s looking really bad for Waitrose if Lyse Doucet’s gone in
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Tim Farron (in Fife): "What do you think about independence?"
Voter: "That woman needs a kick up the arse!"
Farron: "I'll take that as a no"
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The last days of Frome
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Oxford vaccine 70% likely to tell you it went to Oxford, tests find.
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Voxpopping. Green Park. At a safe distance from the public.
“Hi, I’m from BBC News, can I ask you about social distancing?”
“Sorry, my boss thinks I’m self-isolating.”
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Letting a proper photographer into the Commons is one of the best ideas in ages.
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In Calais to work on this story with
@BBCMarkEaston
. Ukrainians can’t get visas here. The Home Office presence in Calais consists of three officials in an unfinished port building handing out ready salted crisps.
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QC Jolyon went out
Like a modern Dickens
Where a fox was roundabout
Threatening his chickens
Sharply swung his baseball bat
In a silk kimono
‘Gainst the fox, and that was that,
he was killed pro bono
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Two-thirds of them have written about it for national newspapers
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Boris Johnson’s term as PM is currently 30 days shorter than Theresa May’s.
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Congrats to the Home Office for getting an interview with the Home Secretary, who doesn’t answer questions often.
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@PritiPatel
was in Dover today seeing first-hand how Border Force officers are intercepting small boats in the Channel.
We are committed to tackling this issue and working with the French government to make this route completely unviable.
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If you interviewed Paddy Ashdown for the telly and asked him for a few words for level before starting the recording, he would recite “Jabberwocky”
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A special well done to everyone staging a protest at a BBC building that hasn’t been a BBC building for nine years.
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*serious Twitter dad face* It’s popular for journalists to moan on here about PRs emailing and phoning them. I phoned two PRs on spec today with a frankly ludicrous request and between them they spent hours helping me. I’m grateful.
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Hello from the High Court, where four migrants and a group of organisations are trying to get an injunction that will prevent people being removed to Rwanda next week.
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I’ve been thinking about the best photo of the Theresa May era, and have decided this is it.
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Imagine if President Trump had got confused with the time difference and phoned Eddie Mair
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@RobBurl
Ask him about the time the cast of Up the Elephant and Round the Castle had a whip round for a young actor to land a punch on him in a fight scene. Jim angrily told him he’d never work again. David Thewlis has since done ok. (Credit to
@AlanKelloggs
for that anecdote)
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I’m sure people in other overnight office jobs have done the same. Oh yes, and if you’ve gone round photographing your colleagues asleep you’re a weird, creepy bastard. *PERSONAL VIEW ENDS*
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He even gets the nuances of devolved education policy.
I don’t even know what to say.
Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.
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Patricia Routledge becomes a Dame in the new year honours list, presumably for services to the best gif on the internet.
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“My electrician earns more than a member of the bar and surely that can’t be right” Former high court judge Sir Richard Henriques says on
#r4today
. He isn’t going to be popular next time he wants a new light fitting.
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The Wi-fi network at the
@UKSupremeCourt
is entitled “SUP Lawyers”, which is co-incidentally what I said as I walked into the building.
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Among the incredible quotes in the Sunday Times piece about the PM’s first year in the job:
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He didn’t take it brilliantly.
Happy Meldrew Point Day, Will Smith! You’ve reached 19,537 days old and hit Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the first airing of One Foot in the Grave. I don’t believe it!
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Um, what?
Police officer on Sky just now: we can't rule out there never having been a drone at Gatwick.
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It would be quite a gig if they all turned up
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...Diocese of Portsmouth says: "We also believe that children... should all feel equally welcomed, valued and nurtured as children of God"
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@JonnyDymond
@chinmj
Lambeth Palace says “The Archbishop does not comment on personal or pastoral matters”. So there we are — a personal/pastoral matter. And not a marriage.
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THREAD: A flutter of excitement ran through Anglican Twitter in the early hours after the Duchess of Sussex said she and Prince Harry had been married in private by
@JustinWelby
before the wedding we all saw.
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now
@JonnyDymond
reports... a person close to the Sussexes saying this “backyard wedding” was a private exchange of vows. The couple were legally married on May 19th. The BBC was told that the event had been incorrectly described in last night’s interview by Meghan.
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Boris Johnson, who 2 months ago wrote a poem about Turkey's president having sex with a goat, is foreign secretary
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Hope he gets a fair trial.
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Holidays are coming, holidays are coming
The lights of the first lorries on the Manston site for a post-Brexit rehearsal.
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You will never see a greater byline/news story combination.
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Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty
You’re listening to the sound of
NEW — Professor Chris Whitty: ‘The trend in UK is heading in the wrong direction and we are at a critical point in the pandemic. We are looking at the data to see how to manage the spread of the virus ahead of a very challenging winter period.’
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Reminder: a foreign language GCSE was compulsory in England until 2004
All kids will have to study a foreign language GCSE in a bid to boost Britain’s bilingual skills post-Brexit
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*PERSONAL VIEW KLAXON* Incredibly annoyed by this. I used to do night shifts. Reading and writing words is not physical work but it can still be knackering. I sometimes had a nap.
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I’m not allowed an opinion on politics but: maybe some of the colleagues who spent last night on air, keeping flood victims informed and entertained, then read in the paper that their station might be sold or closed should write a strongly-worded letter.
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*Kenneth Williams noise*
One of the nude men has climbed on to on a gallery ledge. Two policemen are attempting to pull him off
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This is not going to go down well on CBeebies.
Suggestion: ditch BBC crap Brexit debate format and telecast live to ALL CHANNELS for 90 mins. One big forensic PSB anchor and two expert journos from left and right - eg me and Julia Hartley Brewer, drawing evidence from a panel of experts eg: Portes, Lilico, Renison etc etc
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Went out for a walk and found a 1970 local phone book in a skip. Delighted that it contains the home numbers of both Pinner celebs: Barry Cryer AND Bob Holness.
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This is a problem. The law says that the C of E can’t marry people a) outdoors in a venue such as a back yard; or b) without witnesses. But….
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One of the most amazing bits of gossip I’ve ever heard involved Bruce Forsyth being mistaken for Valéry Giscard-D’estaing by the Pope.
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Programme idea: Tim Montgomerie and Lord Adonis locked in a room doing a Gogglebox-style review of the news.
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Imagine telling a man on the tube to take his Welsh flag mask off and it’s Huw Edwards. Imagine.
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When you’re in a long queue
For a burger or two
That’s in Moray
A newly-reopened Burger King drive-thru in Moray had to close due to long queues of traffic. Police had to go to the branch in Elgin due to demand. Police Scotland said: “Police attended after large amounts of traffic. The store closed and traffic dispersed.” (Pic: Fubar)
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I would like to see Ken Bruce replaced by Rob Brydon, impersonating Ken Bruce.
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When the boss gets a bit emosh at Christmas drinks
"You are never mutineers, never traitors, never malcontents, never enemies of the people" - the Speaker's message to MPs after hearing stories of online abuse.
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Hats off to the NUJ for misspelling “Ed Miliband”; “Ken Clarke” and “Liam Byrne”.
Welcome news that the NUJ are supporting amendments to the Data Protection Bill today.
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@lottelydia
I wholeheartedly agreed with this on reading it and later remembered awkwardly that I am a television journalist.
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This looks like the final stage of an Anglican computer game
Getting ready for our first ordination service
@WellsCathedral1
of our 17 soon to be deacons. Due to
#coronavirus
restrictions, we are holding 4 very small services over this weekend
#newrevs
#MaskUp
#ordinations
Find us on to watch all services .
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Bradley Walsh on BBC One while Graham Norton is on ITV. Feels vaguely unsettling.
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@JonnyDymond
(Here is the proof! I’m indebted to
@chinmj
)
The Registrar of the
@Faculty_Office
has signed the Special Marriage Licence for HRH The Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be married in St George's Chapel in Windsor
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“Vicar” 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 an 👏🏻 appointed 👏🏻 office 👏🏻 held 👏🏻 by 👏🏻 some 👏🏻 Anglican 👏🏻 priests 👏🏻 and 👏🏻 isn’t 👏🏻 a generic 👏🏻 term 👏🏻 for all 👏🏻 church 👏🏻 ministers
#VicarGate
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The new Hundred kits have been revealed and Welsh Fire are going to look like trendy vicars
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Just door stepped an entirely innocent member of the public in the mistaken belief she was the shadow Welsh secretary. How's YOUR day going?
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👀
NEW JOB: Assistant Manager - Pizza Express - Woking GU21 →
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Today the Sunday Times profiles the Archbishop of York, who it reckons has also been managing Arsenal since 1996.
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Why isn’t the BBC reporting that Andrew Adonis is on the TV?
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Hi, very senior Foreign Office official. The big Sikh temple in Amritsar is definitely not a “Golden mosque”.
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I’ve spoken to the Isle of Man and Gibraltar governments this morning about reports that the territories might might house asylum seekers while their claims are processed by the UK. And guess what?
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A plague on neither of your houses
Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry - would you believe it....William Shakespeare from Warwickshire
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The foreign secretary has posted a picture of himself stuck in a maze; the chief whip has a picture of his phone off the hook. The government’s social media game is bloody weird.
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Happy election night to all those who celebrate. This is my office, containing a button that lets me talk directly to Professor Sir John Curtice. It’s quite a good gig.
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OMG, Twitter. Producers make mistakes at work occasionally. I know this from experience. Not everything's a conspiracy
#wreathgate
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Professor Tonge will shortly give us the results of tomorrow’s 1435 at Haydock
I’ll go for confidence in Johnson 59% (211 votes) to 41% no confidence (147) and delete this tweet at 9.01pm when it’s way out.
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Don’t forget Netflix Radio Cumbria, on air through the night.
In and around
#Carlisle
, the rivers still haven't reached their peak, there are 9
#Floodwarnings
and 4
#floodalerts
in force. Check the latest online
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Congratulations to Jo Swinson, the first U.K. party leader to have previously worked at Viking FM.
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“Look. I’m a doctor. I’m a doctor and I want my sausages.” Geoffrey Palmer has died aged 93.
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This is the best one of these so far
Is it just me or did Matt Hancock sign off like an 80s tv quiz show host in today's briefing?
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